[Rasheed Bydousi]

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[Rasheed Bydousi]

The problem is bbpress forums Included inside div id=page so adding width: 100%; won’t help.

[Melindrea]

Perhaps go with .bbpress .page { width: 100%; } ?

[Rasheed Bydousi]

Update:

I found this topic, it has the same issue.

How can I make bbpress forums wider than my usual blog content?

Unfortunately, the proposed solution does not solve the problem.

I’d be happy if someone will give a clue.

Thanks again.

[lucabarbetti]

I did a fresh WP 3.4.2 with bbPress 2.1.2 and now everything works as it is supposed to do. Haven’t found out what was the cause of that malfunction though.

[Melindrea]

So, I have Buddypress installed alongside bbPress, and though it needs to be seriously tweaked in places, I have one big issue that I wonder if anyone know how to solve before I start hacking at it? When you’re at a topic, you can put it as a “favourite”.

The link to your “favourites” lead to /members/users/forums/favorites/, which returns a 404. The “favourites” page, /forums/users/user, that’s part of bbPress is there and works. I think my absolute preference would be to change the favourites link to lead to /members/user/forums, though getting /members/user/forums/favorites to not 404 would also be nice!

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• This topic was modified 13 years, 10 months ago by Melindrea.

[jumpsocial]

I installed bbPress at EndlessLift.com.

When I go to /forums it doesn’t have any links to do anything. No “Register” no “Login”. How are my users supposed to know what to do?

I found a Widget so I could have some links in the sidebar. When I click the links in the sidebar you can see my test content. But no links to do things like register.

What am I doing wrong?

[oatzeal]

hi, am oatzeal, my website is http://dailyjollof.com using wordpress 3.4.1 and bbpress 2.1
..
Question 1: How do i make my forum to be showing related topics at the top or bottom of the page.. Is there any plugin that will work perfectly for that?

Question 2: how do i make my forum topic/ content comes out as excerpt in a search result.. Cos for now its showing in ful and it does not really makes users to like it. Is there any plugin that will work perfect on that?

Thanks

[Jon Hardison]

I’m having having the freakiest issue. Basically, I’ve got an Multisite network running BuddyPress and a separate (non bp) install of bbPress. I’m the super-admin.

I noticed that my role on the main site had been set to Forum User or some such, so I changed it back to Administrator because other plug-ins needed me to be a super-admin in order for them to work properly. Fine, so I’m working away and someone asks me a question on the forum. I answer it and bam! Things stop working again. (??)

I go back and check and sure enough, I’m a forum user again.
I want to use the forum, but i don’t want to be a Forum User. If this a bug or did I mess something up?

Thanx for any info you can provide.

I’m running the latest version of everything (WP, BP, and BB) on CentOS and a bunch of other junk.

🙂

[leanderbraunschweig]

Hi there – and sorry upfront for yet another question with regards to bbPress-Themes…

• I have been doing thorough research in the forums, no answers for me…
• Versions: WordPress running 3.4.2, bbPress is 2.1.2

My situation_

I have setup bbPress to work with my custom theme (OptimizePress) and embedded the [bbp-forum-index]-shortcode into a single page (“forum”). Here I could obviously pick a site-template and therefore the forum is nicely embedded into my site-layout.

Since I cannot continue using shortcodes & (slug-)pages for dynamically generated topics, I went ahead and followed the customization instructions. I can ensure that the right (template-)files are called upon (inside my /theme-directory) because I played around with content-single-forum.php f.ex. and also checked for the correct CSS-reference.

I also followed the instructions concerning the functions.php (in /theme):

add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
remove_action( 'bbp_enqueue_scripts', 'bbp_theme_compat_enqueue_css' );

Now I need to wrap the forum-specific template-files with the page-template used by my custom theme. I already tried integrating the bbPress-code into the exisiting page-template with no positive result (no server-response or strange loop-behaviour).

Either I went down the right road but am weak in skill at modifying PHP-Code or there is a far easier approach I haven’t seen/figured out yet (which again doesn’t compliment me on my skill-level…).

Anyways, maybe someone can help me out / hint me into the right direction.

Thanks so much in advance,
Regards

Henning

[minstu]

Yeah I thought it was odd cos my WP version isn’t exactly wayyy out of date.

Ok well thanks for your help, I’ll try WP_DEBUG and see what turns up.

Thanks again.

[John James Jacoby]

It’s not that it’s incompatible, it’s that supporting hundreds of combinations of multiple pieces of software is not something I’m able to do. There isn’t much that’s changed since 2.0, so I’m curious what the problem actually is.

Turn on WP_DEBUG, and see what errors are happening. Check your error logs on your server. There’s plenty of ways to get more detail, you’ll just need to do some investigation. If you find a bug, I’ll fix it.

[sb05]

WordPress 3.4.2 / bbPress 2.1.2 / site: bit.ly/OVo94w

Have never used bbPress before so bear with me.

The main problem is all non-admin/author/etc users (including public) cannot see any of the posts (confirmed with a test account as both a basic and paid user). Anybody that’s not a user essentially can see the posts though. Can provide screenshots or test logins if needed.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, after a WordPress update, a cropped version of the main logo for the site started showing up on the forum index after ‘Forums by’.

There also seems to be an issue with public visibility of all the forums on the index (have checked permissions/etc). They all show up to a logged in user but only 2 of them show up for a non-registered/public user and bots indexing the site.

Have tried a number of things so far that i have found in other topics here: Disabling Akismet (and a number of other plugins to see if there are any conflicts), Deactivating and Reactivating bbPress, deleting and re-creating the forums, and more.

At this point I am a little lost, and not sure how to fix these and really would like to avoiding having to completely re-install bbPress/Wordpress.

Thanks for your help in advance.

[minstu]

Yeah well I deactivated all the oher plugins (only two of em anyway) and it still does it. I also tried it locally on my test machine, same versions of everything and same result. So I can rule out memory or plugin conflicts at least.

Really annoying, what’s the point of having the older versions for download then if it’s not really supposed to work with them? The page even gives you a ‘will it/won’t it work with…x version’ drop down to see if it’s compatible.

[jedikk1]

Hi everyone,
I’ve just finished searching info about features mentioned in the title, and here goes my question. Are there some plugins for post count for every single user? Or is it in consideration of developers to add such function?

And next q. What about search option? Plans? Or some already existing plugin?

I found plugin which extends searching in our blog also to forums, but it seems it is not compatible with my theme, and results are just big mess, ugly. It’s called Search bbPress 2.0.

[globalbala]

I had similar issue and after verifying all the bbpress user function (especially bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form) i came to know that it could be because of user profile as well. I mean in “wp_users” table the user_status should be 0 and if any case its 2 (meaning they have not yet validated there login) they could not able to post / create a topic. Check Your DB and see whether it helps. -Balajee

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[Colin Tedford]

I had similar confusion. After reading this thread and the one Roger linked (and verifying that I was thus able to alter bbPress CSS), I edited https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ to hopefully prevent anyone else getting confused in the same way.

When you learn something that seems like it should be in the documentation, please add it to the documentation for the rest of us!

[John James Jacoby]

All sounds pretty weird, and nothing bbPress would have caused directly; it doesn’t touch media at all.

[darinb]

Yikes, I forgot to list one of the most important features I need.

6) Integrated comments between the forum and the comment field of posts.

–Darin

[darinb]

I’ve googled and browsed through the forums and finally decided just to ask the experts: Is bbPress right for me?

I’m running a WordPress site and want to start a forum. Simplicity and clean design are important to me. I dislike most of the forum offerings because it seems like you are looking at a database more than a conversation, if you know what I mean.

Here are a few things I’m looking for:

1) Works great on iOS devices.
2) Clean, non-category-oriented design. (e.g. maybe looks like Vanilla?).
3) Has a plug-in that not only shows the title of the recent post but shows a bit of the text. Again, a focus on the conversation, not the database.
4) Not buggy, not a spam magnet.
5) Easy to use for non-techie readers.

For some reason #3 seem to be a difficult hurdle for most forums. Instead they like to show the category, the post title, the author, the time–everything but teasing the reader with what is actually being said!

I did see a bbPress demo somewhere–here, I thought but I can’t find it now–that had a nice-looking theme. It was called (O)x or something like that. The “Theme” section seems to be down these past few days, maybe it was there.

–Darin

[FiveOneDigital]

Is there a way to use the bbPress forum list (parents & children) in a widget? Basically I need to create a WordPress Custom Menu with the list, but I have way too many forums to list them all out. Did I just miss something?

NOTE: I know about the bbPress Forum List widget. I need that list but for use in another widget.

Thanks!

[Rasheed Bydousi]

Hello, I am using TwentyEleven and bbPress 2.1.2

TwentyEleven has a width limit 980px and that is OK.

I want to integrate bbPress but I want it to be 100% full screen width.

I do not want the whole site to be 100% full screen width.

I just want the forums to be 100% and the rest of the site to be 980px.

The problem div id=bbpress-forums is inside div id=page

page {

    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 0 25px;
    width: 980px;
}

I don’t know how to separate these divs.

Any help? Thanks

• This topic was modified 13 years, 10 months ago by Rasheed Bydousi.
• This topic was modified 13 years, 10 months ago by Rasheed Bydousi.

[John James Jacoby]

I’m working on this now for bbPress 2.2, which I’ll most likely fast-track to address this exact issue. I consider it all a big bug, if not just quickly behavior.

[John James Jacoby]

Sounds like you’re running out of memory, or some plugin conflict. bbPress is also only really intended to work with current WordPress versions; once you start mixing and matching versions, you’re on your own to troubleshoot.

[minstu]

Has anyone experienced or know how to resolve this issue? I have installed bbPress version 2.0.2 (downloaded from older versions section) and the install goes fine, up until I click on ‘activate’ in the plugins.

After I do that I can no longer view my site or any page or link or anything at all, it’s just a blank page. I also noticed that in the admin section (which I can still se no problem), the ‘appearance’ menu, half the menu is missing (theme options, menu, backgrounds, header etc).

Click on ‘deactivate’ and all returns to normal.

My version of WP is 3.3.1 and I do not want to upgrade to 3.4.1 (this is why I downloaded an older version of bbPress that is supposedly compatible)

Is this just a compatibility issue with older versions etc or am I missing something on the install?

Thanks